A woman who suffers from a debilitating disease says she was finally diagnosed after a year of confusion - when a stranger reached out to her on Facebook.
Annie Marshall, 20, first began experiencing symptoms in March 2020 after a bout of food poisoning left her in pain every time she ate. After seeing a number of specialists, she was diagnosed with gastroparesis in March 2021.
But she says none of the medications or treatments she was given helped relieve the symptoms - and she even had to go on a liquid diet. It was only after she vented her frustrations in a Facebook group for gastroparesis sufferers that a woman reached out to her and suggested she looks into Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome, or MALS for short.
